Wow I Suck

Okay, so I realize by now that being in college pretty much means you give up on anything that you had time for while in high school. It has literally been a year since I have posted anything and that is sad. I have said it once and I will say it again, I am just not good at keeping up with a blog. I had also said before that I will try and do better and I will say it again now. I will TRY to keep up with my postings. Probably only when I finish something (book, project, ect.) or if something monumental happens. We'll see though. I will most likely forget I even have this blog again in a few days. Thanks to anyone out there reading. TNT (til next time).

The Highest Form of Irony

So, remember my angel fish? The one who ate my neon fish? Well, I put him back in his tank and blogged about his crime.Then, like five minutes after I published that story, I noticed that he was acting weird and hanging around the bottom of the tank. This is weird because he's usually chillin at the top. Another 5 minutes passed and he was lying on the bottom of the tank. I freaked out and started googling what was wrong with the little sucker and how I could fix him. I ended up getting onto a chat with an angel fish expert, that's right, this guy was an expert specifically on angel fish. How lucky was that? Anyways I told him about my conundrum and he said yeah your fish is probs dying from eating another fish and from the stress of a tank cleaning. There's not much you can do unless you can get him to "barf" up the little fish. Barf up the fish?! How on earth am I supposed to do that?! Can fish even do that? Apparently so, though it's not really barfing. Unfortunately I didn't have any of the supplies that you supposedly need to accomplish this and Fatty died. I was really depressed that I lost both my fish in the course of half an hour. That's life though and there is an important lesson to be learned. You can eat that whole cake if you really want to, but make sure you have the stomach for it. My tank is so clean and just sitting on my desk all empty. It's depressing.

Murder!

This is the culprit

About a month ago I got two fish. Now when I got them, I was sure to ask the pet store lady if they were aggressive or not, seeing as I don't know a heap about fish breeds. She told me that the two I had picked out should get along just fine, even though one was larger and the other smaller. I put both fish in a two gallon tank in my dorm room. Everything seemed to be going fine at first. But then! I noticed that the larger of the two, which was only an inch long, was a pig! He was always hungry and would get so excited at feeding time(I felt a spiritual connection with him because of this). The food I got them said to only feed three times a day and only as much as your fish could eat in two minutes. Well what the heck was I supposed to do when Fatty (the larger fish) would suck down huge amounts in under two minutes?! I just kept giving him more and he just kept eating it all. I know, I know, there is such a thing as overfeeding. The problem was, when I didn't feed him as much, he would go and chase Anex (the little one) around and nip at him. Anyways this was just how it was. A month went by until today and I decided it was time to clean the tank. After some struggle with both troublesome little fillets, I got them out and cleaned the tank. I only had one container to put them in, so I put both in there, not thinking twice about it. I leave them alone for 5 minutes to set up the tank and come back to a serious conundrum. Only one fish was in the container! *dun-dun-daaaaa* Now I seriously thought someone was punking me at first, and stole my fish. I soon came to accept that in such close quarters, Fatty had finally caught his prey and poor Anex hadn't stood a chance. So now I have one murderous, fat fish. He actually looks happy now. I did some research as a result of this incident, and have decided to write a strongly worded letter to the pet store manager. Fatty is an angelfish which are very aggressive towards fish like Anex, who was a neon fish, so NO, they did NOT get along just fine. So moral of the story, please research your aquatic friends before you buy them, failure to do so may result in cannibalism, which is frowned upon in most societies.

New Post, New Life

Hey, so it's been awhile. I really haven't written much since high school ended and then college began. I don't even know if people read these, so maybe I'm just writing to myself, which I've never been very good at. Everything is moving really fast now. The days just kinda blur by in a haze of homework, class, and occasional sleep. I've never been the best at making friends and now, here in college, I find myself missing my friend back home more and more. I constantly ask myself, "why did I choose to go to some liberal arts school when I could have gone to an agricultural college with people I know?" I regret my decision now, and maybe I always will, but hopefully not. People are nice here and living in the dorms, I'm never alone, but I still kinda feel alone at the same time. Most people tell me that college will be the best years of my life. I think that's just a clique that everyone tells college kids to make them feel less shitty about leaving home and the only life they've ever known. That's my case at least, I'm sure plenty of people are different. I just sound sullen now. There are plenty of good things too. I've met people and even though non of them feel like they're going to become my best friend or anything, maybe it'll just take me longer. If I can find such wonderful friends like I had back home in a tiny town of 3,000, I'm sure I can find some here too. I'm going to try to keep up a little better with blogging, now that I seem to have the hang and college and I don't really have a social life yet. Best wishes to whomever it may concern.

Win-Win

So, as posted previously, I do not have cable. I cannot watch some shows that I really like, unless I find them on the internet. The main show that I regret missing is Legend of Korra. One day I went to the new gym in our area with my mom. It was the first time I had gone. I discovered something amazing about this gym. The ellipticals, treadmills, and cycling machines all had built in TV's. All you had to do was plug in headphones, and tune in to any channel you wanted to. It is not cable, but the TV directory showed that Nickelodeon was available. This means,,,I CAN WATCH LEGEND OF KORRA. When the third book starts back up I can go to the gym at the time when it's on. It's a win-win situation. I can work out and watch Legend of Korra. I'm really excited.

Issue of Bullying

So every six months or so our school pulls us from class for a lyceum on bullying that discusses the effects and how to overcome it. I think these are necessary, because bullying is a real problem. But I also think that sometimes people really over-react to little things. If one kid says something insulting to another, it's very likely that the parents will be told and the first child will be in trouble. Even if the words weren't meant to be mean, nothing can be said without people taking it the wrong way. I think there is a line between bullying and a person just having no tact in speaking. Basically, don't bully and don't be an over-reacting tattle tail.

Rare Creativity

www.thecreativepenn.com

A friend of mine is writing a pretty cool story. It was for a class but she decided to keep going and make a novel out of it. It's pretty good and who knows, maybe someday it will be published and I can say I was one of the first to read the original story. Anyways I read her story and it inspired me to write a story of my own. I'm a pretty good spontaneous writer, I don't plan my stories out I just write what I think sounds good and let the story line flow. I don't ever expect this to become anything, it's sorta just something to do when I don't want to pay attention in class. I write another few paragraphs. I have five pages types so far and I'm no where near done. This is going to be a year long project.

Frustration!!!!

I don't have cable so even through Legend of Korra premiered to night I can't watch it till it is put up online. I want to see. Grrrrrrr. I hope it's as great as I think it should be. RAWR!!!! I hope they put it up soon.

Salutations

Hello, I am the Phantom. I lead a life of fandoms, phasing from one to the next. I like books, anime, movies, TV shows, and comics. So yes I'm not a creepy, dark, gothic, Phantom, no I'm the nerdy Phantom. I will write about anything that pops into my head that I feel should be shared with the world. If you don't like my opinions then by all means get off my blog and don't let the computer crash on your way out. If you enjoy reading cool stuff, then welcome to the Phantom's Domain.